‘A JOURNAL I BOUGHT ONLINE SOLVED MY MYSTERY’
Jun 02, 2020
3 minutes
Paul Johnson was thrilled to discover that the acclaimed Welsh artist Thomas Prytherch is his great great uncle. Thomas might not have been a household name, but he was highly regarded in artistic circles and his work has been exhibited in world-famous galleries.
Thomas came from humble beginnings. He was born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1864, the son of a weigher and puddler at Dowlais Ironworks, and began working alongside his father as a metal straightener at the age of 10.
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